While bookbinding and book repair share many skills and techniques, they are also distinct pursuits. This course is intended to introduce the student familiar with bookbinding to key practices within basic book repair.

Hand lettering for all, even those with the shakiest of handwriting! Ease into the art of calligraphy with this beginning class in penmanship, letter formation, layout techniques, and calligraphic processes and materials.

Learn the art of medieval illumination and decorative painting, but with modern materials.

Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design.

Learn about the tender art of subtractive drawing that is papercut! What happens when we make images with razor sharp sweetness?

Is it possible to print a photograph letterpress? Yes, it is!

'Tis the season to send some cards! Get an introduction to letterpress printing on cylinder presses while creating personalized and original holiday stationery.

Our Bookbinding Core Certificate Program introduces students to four different binding models, leading them through the history and evolution of bookmaking. It provides students a comprehensive foundation to delve into the practice of binding and qualifies them to work in our bindery.

Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design.

Learn basic bookbinding structures and stitches that every book artist should know in this three-hour workshop. If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

Colorful and fun, this method of decorating paper is easy to learn and the papers created can be used for many purposes.

In centuries past, books were sometimes sewn onto cords and then laced into soft covers before being bound. In this class students will bind a book employing thick paper as a folded and laced wrapper.

The four class Cylinder Core Certificate Program allows students to quickly learn letterpress basics while also addressing relief printing in general.

After Orientation to Leather, take the plunge into the world of leather bookbinding. In this 3-day workshop students will refine their leather working skills while making a book that advances the skills learned in Bookbinding Core 4.

The final class in our Core Bookbinding series uses skills learned in each previous class to create a beautiful and classic rounded back cloth binding.

Learn how to combine the basic structure of a star book with the theatrical 3D effects of a tunnel book.

This class introduces the process, the materials, the machines, and the satisfaction of printing by hand on a Cylinder proof press.

A book structure with personality built into the cover, buttonhole books allow for exposed sewing and decorative cuts that give a window from the outside in.